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In the course of a week, Canada accused Israel of violating international law, announced Ottawa will recognize a Palestinian state, and sent aid to be airlifted to Gaza. But a shocking new report makes clear that the proposed 51st state still arms Israel’s death machine. Canada sent at least 391 shipments containing bullets, military equipment, weapons parts, aircraft components, and communication devices to Israel since late 2023, despite Ottawa’s repeated claims to have ended weapons deliveries to the apartheid state, […]

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When the police arrived, they also advised Dershowitz to use non-gendered pronouns. Dershowitz was hesitant. “I’ll use whatever language I choose to use,” he told the police. “That’s a matter between me and my grammarian — not anything the police should have anything to say over.”

— New York Magazine 7/31/25

All right, look. (I continue to prefer that formulation to the increasingly popular “Alright, look,” because while, unlike some of my more prescriptive colleagues, I have no quarrel with the adjectival “alright,” in the interjectory context—but I digress.) Please know that I am no longer employed by Alan Dershowitz.

Alan and I always had a somewhat tenuous business arrangement to begin with. He first approached me in the 1980s, when it was commonplace for wealthy individuals to keep full-time private grammarians on staff.

Do you eat enough protein in a day? Don’t even bother answering, because I know the answer is no. But don’t worry, I’m kind of a protein guy. I can give you all the guidance you need so you can stop being such a weak little bitch. I eat three hundred times my recommended daily allowance of protein. So as you can imagine, my life is perfect. I can crush a fifteen-gallon stainless-steel trash can with my thighs. I could lift your sofa above my head and throw it so far you’ll never see it again. And that’s what I’ll do if you don’t start eating enough protein. So you’d better listen up.

Let’s start with the basics. According to my nutritionist, a guy named the Beef Man, you should be getting at least 30,000 grams of protein at each meal. You’re probably clocking in at a cool fifteen grams or less, which, quite frankly, makes me want to punch a wall. How many chicken breasts have you even eaten so far today? Four? Five? Don’t make me laugh.

From Star Wars pages to Rasta forums, the CIA's secret websites helped spies communicate, track targets, and manipulate narratives, even among America's friends.

The post The CIA Built Hundreds of Covert Websites. Here’s What They Were Hiding appeared first on MintPress News.

Americans on the scene who tried to help Palestinians said Israeli authorities detained them — all as settler attackers roamed free.

The post American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel appeared first on The Intercept.

A quarterly column, steady as ever

“What do twenty-first-century people have an appetite for? I’m leaving myself out of this. I’m a twentieth-century person, I suspect.”

It’s supposed to be gorgeous out, and we can’t spend such a gorgeous weekend trapped in the house by the bathroom.

It’s supposed to be gross out, and it will be hard enough having our toddler stuck inside all weekend without adding potty training into the mix.

I mean, did you see the news that just came out about Miles Teller? I don’t know how we’re supposed to focus on anything else with that whole situation going on.

We’ve already committed to making this the weekend when we pretend we’re serious about getting her to stop using her pacifier rather than the one when we pretend we’re serious about getting her to use the potty.

We don’t want to.

We want to so badly that not doing it seems like a valuable opportunity to teach ourselves and our toddler about the benefits of self-denial.

One of his cousins is just about finished with potty training, and we need to let her enjoy her moment in the sun for a weekend or six before we swoop in with great potty training news of our own.

My parents are visiting, and we don’t want the stress of potty training to ruin a fun weekend with them.

Starvation in Gaza has reached a crisis point. But Albanese’s response has simply been to spout platitudes while continuing to allow the export of weapons components being used in the genocide.

The post Albanese still arming Israel while Gaza starves first appeared on Solidarity Online.

- by Anshi Zachary Smith

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Research on how we perceive the rate of change shows how you can be strategic about goal tracking and boost your motivation

- by André Vaz

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Rick Loessberg and Akela Lacy trace the trajectory of America’s unfinished reckoning with policing, from the 1967 Kerner Report to the George Floyd protests to Trump 2.0.

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